PITTSBURGH – A Wisconsin couple claims that the presence of an unmarked and unprotected drop-off located next to the handicap space where their friend’s vehicle was parked, led the wife-plaintiff to fall and suffer a severe leg injury.
WILLIAMSPORT – A lawsuit which alleged that a gymnastics camp counselor sexually abused the plaintiffs’ child and that the facility staff threatened the child and failed to report the abuse as required by law, will remain in a federal court.
WILLIAMSPORT – A Northumberland County man alleges that staffing at the county jail was inadequate and ineffective, leading to his daughter’s suicide when she found herself incarcerated at the facility on drug charges.
PITTSBURGH – Giant Eagle grocery stores is pushing for sanctions against one of a group of class action plaintiffs suing it for enforcing mask mandates, despite their disabilities.
MEDIA – A Swarthmore woman says her young son was severely cut by broken glass at her apartment complex, and that both it and its real estate company are mutually negligent in causing that event.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for all parties involved in litigation surrounding an alleged sexual assault at a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth have reached a mutual stipulation on the plaintiff’s placement at the center.
MEDIA – Counsel for a Delaware County hospital are seeking to strike allegations of recklessness and claims for punitive damages from a Georgia woman’s lawsuit, brought after the hospital and its personnel were said to have failed to diagnose and monitor her late husband’s medical condition, which led to him passing away from cardiac arrest soon after his discharge.
PITTSBURGH – A Penn Hills man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a local taxi cab company and a homeowner, alleging that they collectively caused the death of his wife.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has sent litigation from a Philadelphia entrepreneur and musician who claimed rideshare company Lyft stole and misappropriated his concepts for corporate philanthropy without compensation for 90 days, to arbitration.
MEDIA – One company has been dismissed from litigation which claimed that a number of Delaware County health care entities improperly administered an epidural injection to a pregnant woman and caused her death.
LANCASTER – The Park City Mall has denied liability for a shooting incident which occurred at the site last October, and then caused a pair of shoppers trampled in the ensuing panic to sue them and the mall itself.
SCRANTON – A man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues and who allegedly assaulted a licensed practical nurse at work, denies the allegations against him in an answer to the plaintiff’s complaint.
PITTSBURGH – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s litigation against U.S. Steel for extensive air pollution violations at its facility in Braddock saw the filing of a proposed consent decree the same day, which would see the company pay $1.5 million and remediate conditions at the plant.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh couple have countered the denials of their Virginia-based landlords, in a case where the plaintiffs allege that faulty wiring nearly caused a fire in the home they rented in Penn Hills.
ALLENTOWN – A Pennsylvania man who fell off a ladder on the job, sustained a litany of serious injuries and filed suit against the ladder manufacturer, Home Depot and Lowe’s, has settled his claims.
